UHealth’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has adapted radiation therapy into precise individualized treatment. UHealth’s radiation oncologists have spent more than six years adapting radiation ...

The fundamental tools of cancer treatment have largely been identified. Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and, most recently, immunotherapy form the key components of many treatment plans. So, when ...

Simply put, a linear accelerator is the machine that is used to deliver radiation therapy to destroy a tumor. In standard radiation therapy, the medical team uses sophisticated imaging to pinpoint the ...

New genetic analyses of cichlids in Lake Victoria highlight several candidate genes that may drive adaptive radiation and provide evidence for decisive selective events that cause particular genetic ...

For patients with recurrent retroperitoneal sarcomas that cannot be treated surgically, treatment choices are limited. These tumors can grow quite large in the abdomen adjacent to vital organs or ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the islands ...

As Enke 1 describes in this important review, radiation therapy is a remarkably active single agent in the treatment of lymphoma across the spectrum of histologic and molecular subtypes. The use of ...